Republican War Against Women

Women have always had it more difficult than men. Look back at Republican Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault to many aspects of Western culture and society. American women's rights are stripped away. Title IX's application in college sexual-assault cases was dialed back. The Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood which provides countless non-abortion medical procedures. The GOP supports legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks, and a majority of late-term abortions are performed after health concerns for the mother, the fetus, or both.

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Republicans across the country winced three years ago when the term “war on women” entered the lexicon — the result of gaffes that included use of the phrase “legitimate rape” by Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin and Rush Limbaugh’s attack on feminist Sandra Fluke as a “slut” after she lobbied legislators for health insurance coverage for contraceptives. The war, it seems, hasn’t ended. Political observers say Republicans may again be toying with a strategy that threatens to resurrect the theme, this time with a GOP-backed drive to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides health care to 2.

Republicans across the country winced three years ago when the term “war on women” entered the lexicon — the result of gaffes that included use of the phrase “legitimate rape” by Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin and Rush Limbaugh’s attack on feminist Sandra Fluke as a “slut” after she lobbied legislators for health insurance coverage for contraceptives. The war, it seems, hasn’t ended. Political observers say Republicans may again be toying with a strategy that threatens to resurrect the theme, this time with a GOP-backed drive to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides health care to 2.

After taking her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh public in the Washington Post over the weekend, Christine Blasey Ford found herself the subject of an emerging smear campaign on Monday, led by the top Republicans in Washington, who are dedicated to getting Kavanaugh onto the court above all else.

Whether or not Christine Blasey Ford faces the Senate, this confrontation could shape American politics for decades

Why do Republicans Hate Women?If one follows the behavior of Republican law-makers over the last several years, a pattern soon emerges: most of their policies tend to limit women’s rights, in an overt or clear way. And one cannot but wonder about what prompts this negative behavior. Are they, perhaps, unaware of it or, more pointedly, it reflects

On the Webcast Extra, comments by Mike Huckabee at the Republican National Committee`s winter meeting renew discussion of the GOP`s war on women. Plus, a new HBO documentary about Mitt Romney`s two failed presidential campaigns premieres this week. NBC News` Pete Williams discusses the possibility of clemency for NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and Real Clear Politics` Alexis

Where are the Republican women of the Senate on Brett Kavanaugh? Where is Senator Collins of Maine? Where is Senator Murkowski of Alaska? In the past, they have been the voices of reason in an increasingly unreasonable party. Their failure to immediately call for a postponement of the Kavanaugh vote is strikingâare they capitulating to their partyâs escalation of the war on women? This war has victims, and they are piling up at an alarming rate.